The anti-corruption watchdog on the docks of New York harbor isn’t slowing down hiring after all.

That is the message that emerged from Wednesday’s closed door meeting between the Waterfront Commission–the watchdog– the New York Shipping Association and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, whose executives have worked to broker a truce between regulators and workers on the waterfront.

The shipping association and the International Longshoremen’s Association, which represents port workers, had charged that the waterfront commission was taking too long to approve new hires to work in the container terminals. The commission, founded in 1953 to weed out mob influence in the port, is charged with performing background checks on workers before they can be added to the active roster of longshoremen and checkers at the port.

But correspondence between the the commission, the association and the union showed that roughly 100 workers have been approved to begin working on the waterfront but have yet to be called upon, casting doubt on warnings of an imminent labor shortage.

Notwithstanding that, an executive from the AFL-CIO appealed earlier this week to Govs. Chris Christie and Andrew Cuomo to “take whatever actions necessary” to speed up hiring, blaming the commission for a “refusal to allow terminal operators to hire needed employees.”

Port Authority Executive Director Patrick Foye and Deputy Executive Director Bill Baroni brokered a meeting Wednesday between the shippers and the commission to resolve differences over the pace of hiring.

There is “real need for additional employees on the docks,” the authority said in a written statement, adding that “hundreds” of workers will soon be added to the ranks on the waterfront. That reflects the recent collective bargaining agreement between the union and management, and the expectation of roughly 300 impending retirements this spring, when new pension provisions kick in.

But the statement also directly contradicted the shippers’ and unions previous assertions that the Waterfront Commission was stalling the progress of hiring.

“All parties agree that the Waterfront Commission was and is not delaying hiring, and applicants are actively being referred and processed,” the statement read.